Strike, struggle and scale: Union and feminist challenges to a multinational company in the Antalya Free Trade Zone, Turkey.

摘要

Most of the current literature on globalization has focused upon the increasing global mobility of capital, and arrived at the conclusion that the increasing influence and scalar reach of capital---extending from the nation-state to global and local levels---implies disempowerment of labour union praxis. On contrary to those claims, this thesis examines the strategic usage of scales by the labour unions and workers against a Multinational Company, Fresenius Medical Care in one of the recent strikes in Antalya Free Zone, Turkey. At the same time, however, this thesis highlights that the strategic usage of scales in episodic union action cannot be used to measure the working class power. My argument is that although transnational global-up and local-down strategies might play a significant role in the resultant victory of episodic union actions, a significant source of labour's national bargaining and workplace power remains rooted in the scaled politico-economic regulations of the capitalist state.